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(January 25, 2018) National Immigration Project of the NLG and Professor Margaret Satterthwaite filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of State (DOS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain records documenting the reasons behind the government’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians – a decision that imperils the well-being of 58,000 Haitians and their families in the United States.

(January 25, 2018) After more than 10 months in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez has been released and reunited with his family. ICE has also granted him the ability to remain in this country while his visa application is processed. Catalan-Ramirez’s detention was initially triggered when the Chicago Police Department (CPD) falsely included him in its Gang Database and then shared that false information with ICE.

(March 10, 2017) This latest executive order is just the same as the last one but with a bit of artful legal drafting to try to withstand judicial scrutiny,” said Trina Realmuto, Litigation Director of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

(February 1, 2017) Civil and immigrant rights groups asked a federal court to lift the unconstitutional ban that blocks Muslim immigrants lawfully living in the United States from becoming U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and asylees, among other things.Read the press release »

(January 30, 2017) NIPNLG along with the American Immigration Council, and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a nationwide, class action lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s executive order, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” on grounds that it violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law and statutory prohibition against discrimination.

(January 30, 2017) Legal Director Sejal Zota, Board member Javier N. Maldonado, and Vinesh Patel took the case of Shahin Hassanpour, a 70-year old Iranian woman who received her U.S. immigrant visa in September, 2016; and who upon entry to the U.S., would have been granted lawful permanent residence.

(January 28, 2017) We denounce this Executive Order in the strongest of terms. History demonstrates that such policies and laws as the Chinese Exclusion Act, the so-called Japanese internment, the Palmer Raids, Operation W**back , and others, are in retrospect viewed as irreconcilable with the tenets of democracy.

(April 20, 2016) The New York Times' editorial board turned to the on-going crisis in immigration enforcement, highlighting the cases of high school students raided by ICE. Julie Mao, Enforcement Fellow with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild said, “This editorial reflects the strong, national consensus that ICE should release these Georgia and North Carolina youth and end Operation Border Guardian, a misguided program which has caused deep upheaval and crisis in Latino communities and across school systems. It’s time that this Administration stop providing cover for ICE misconduct and start demanding accountability.”

April 20, 2016 - Responsiveness to Congressional and Public Inquiries on Deportation and Detention Practices by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Presenters from North Carolina, Phoenix, Philadelphia as well as those working nationally will address questions of oversight and accountability of ICE officers, specifically when it comes to implementing DHS policies, and what resources communities have when ICE continues to act as a rogue agency.